Last updated:聽21 september, 2009 - 13:33 GMT
89 Voices - Berlin
Twenty years ago protests against communist governments in Poland, Hungary and East Germany started to develop, but quickly spread across Eastern Europe.
In a series '89 Voices', Outlook hears the stories of five 20-year-olds who were born in that extraordinary year.
Arno Hoelzer lives in East Berlin, he was eight months old when the Berlin wall came down.
Arno's view of East Berlin in words and pictures
Arno's radio report for Outlook
A stroll around the neighbourhood...